The Five People You Meet in Heaven Page #3

Synopsis: On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Lloyd Kramer
Production: RHI Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
NOT RATED
Year:
2004
180 min
963 Views


Which becomes part of yours.

Did you ever dance here?

I never danced with a woman.

I was a nervous boy,

and a nervous man.

Everything scared me.

What the hell's wrong

with you?

You were born

with two left feet!

A chemist, for my problem,

gave me silver nitrate.

You know this?

Yes. A poison, today.

But we were not

so smart back then.

I drank it and when it didn't

work, I drank more.

It turned my skin this color.

A side effect.

Permanent, I'm afraid.

My life as a man was over.

My life as a freak had begun.

I had many names.

Algeria. Tanzania.

I had never been

to any of those places.

It made me feel... exotic.

One summer, I came here.

Ruby Pier.

The ocean. The sand.

I could walk in the mornings,

before the customers arrived.

I can feel the sea breeze.

Like a normal man.

I was happy here

until the day I died.

You see, Edward.

This is not your heaven.

It's mine.

What?

What...

killed...

you?

You did.

You see the boy?

See the man in the car?

It was only my second time.

It was on a Saturday morning.

I thought, what can happen?

I so loved it, behind

the wheel of an automobile.

Like a normal man.

Watch it... look out!

What I almost did.

That little boy.

My blood was rushing.

My heart was not strong.

And it surrendered.

The police wrote 'heart attack'

on the official papers.

No one saw.

No one knew.

No one pays much notice to

a freak, even when he dies.

People just...

go on with their lives...

You see now

why you are here...

God help me, Mister.

I didn't mean it...

You dying...

I didn't know!

But how could you know?

You were only a child.

So now I gotta pay, right?

- Pay?

- For my sin?

That's what I'm here for,

right? Justice?

No, no, no, no. You are here

so I can teach you something.

Each one of your five people...

has one such thing

to show you, to illuminate.

By the end, what you did not

understand in life, you will.

But why do I have

to wear Joe's shoes?

- Quiet!

- Stop wiggling!

But it's my birthday!

I don't want to go.

Well, sometimes you have to do

things you don't want to do.

I remember this...

we had to go to a funeral...

your funeral?

But it's my birthday!

What did I say?

What did I say?

I said be quiet!

Ma?

Come on, son.

I did not attract

a big crowd that day.

But it's not fair!

It was my own stupidity,

running out there like that.

I should have been

the one killed...

not you!

Fairness does not

govern life and death.

If it did, no good man

would ever die young.

During my time on earth...

people died instead

of me, too.

An airplane crashes that

you should have been on.

A fire burns the building that

you left an hour before.

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Mitch Albom

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays, and films. Albom lives with his wife Janine Sabino in Detroit, Michigan. more…

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